Perpetual growth of consumption is likely unsustainable, especially when considering the fact that externalities are rarely accounted for.
Here in the land of conspicuous consumption and perpetual self-improvement, we are competitive connoisseurs on a rampage.
The first is the population explosion; the second is the expectation of perpetual growth in per capita consumption, not just for several billion poor people, but for the billion or so who are already rich.
Use perpetual and renewable sources of environment.
At times her characters could have stepped out of Dynasty, but perhaps Collins is suggesting that the lives of the super-rich are frozen in a perpetual state of big-haired conspicuous consumption.
Regions once consigned to perpetual poverty and traditional societies are today gaining consumption levels comparable to developed economies just several decades earlier.
The more that people carted in, the more they seemed to cart out, creating a perpetual motion machine of disgust and attraction, deaccession and consumption, and unearthing layers of anthropology of New York in 2011.
IN THE 1990s, the inability to diagnose Japan's prolonged economic slump, with private investment and consumption languishing and the banking system in perpetual crisis, has become the great failure of modern macroeconomics.
Bo et al. (2010) consider a logarithmic investor maximizing utility from consumption in market model consisting of a defaultable perpetual bond, default-free stock, and money market account.
The Atlantic salmon contains a growth hormone gene from a Chinook salmon and a fragment of ocean pout DNA that acts as a sort of perpetual "on" switch -- a combination that helps the salmon grow large enough for consumption in 18 months instead of the typical three years.
One perpetual concern is the development of appropriate research approaches for tackling large fuel consumption and optimization problems.
